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ze reduction of endospermand renement of these from bran, hulls, and germ. Therefore, this is achieved by theconventional dry-milling approach

of cleaning, tempering, degerminating, drying, cooling,grading, aspiration, grinding, sifting, and purifying. Essentially grits, meals, and ourwould all consist of primarily

starch and protein, and the main difference among them would be the particle size. Table 1 Milled Corn Products and

Their Applications Milled products Applications Characteristics Flaking grits Corn akes Coarse granulation (3.5 US mesh). yellow corn with nonssured, vitre-

ous endosperm to provide higheryield of grits Grits Table use such as polenta, porridge, Appropriate balance of granulation snack foods, brewers grits ( to provide reasonable cooking time and homogeneouscooked texture without causing for- mation of lumps Meal and our Tortillas, bread mix, pasta, snack Finer particle size with wide varia- foods, at breads, and such tion. More specic particle size is dependent on the type of nishedproduct Specialty Milling 3 When corn is required to yield nished products on the basis of its constituents, such as very high yield of rened starch, germ, gluten meal, or feed, quite differentapproach to isolate these various components is required. It is quite clear from the explanations provided in dry corn milling, that of the four different degerminating processes described, the best recovery of germ is accomplished in the process where highest level of tempering moisture is added. Germ and hull can be removed more effectively by tempering to much higher level of moisture (2%) andby controlled attrition within the rotor and the knobbed jacket of the Beall degerminator.Following the dislodging of the germ and separation of some of the hull the physicalremoval of these eventually takes place in the gravity tables and aspirators. This separationof germ and hull from large chunks of pure and composite endosperm particles with some remaining germ and hulls,